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Stargate: Inside OpenAI's $100B Plan to Build AI Infrastructure
The Stargate Project is a $500 billion joint venture announced in January 2025 to build AI compute infrastructure across the United States—the largest private AI infrastructure commitment in history. Here's what's actually being built, who's paying, and what it means for the future of compute.
Vector Search at Scale: Architectures That Handle Billions of Embeddings
Vector search at scale requires distributed architectures, approximate nearest neighbor algorithms like HNSW and IVF, and intelligent sharding strategies. Leading implementations can query billions of embeddings in milliseconds with 95%+ recall.
RAG in Production: Retrieval Augmented Generation That Actually Works
RAG combines large language models with external knowledge retrieval to reduce hallucinations and ground AI outputs in factual data. While the concept is straightforward, production deployment reveals critical challenges around chunking strategies, latency optimization, and retrieval accuracy that separate working systems from prototypes.